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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
THE FIDELITY BANK,
1t Was Run Mainly on Wind and
Cheek.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 10.-It is under
stood that Ammi Baldwin, late cashier
of the defunct Fidelity National bank,
has made statement of affairs in the
institution which gives an inside view.
1t begins with giving some news re-
garding the condition of the Third Ma
tional bank, in which Baldwin was
cashier. In 1881, he says, Handy, Har-
per and others were engaged in the big
wheat deal at Chicago, and one night
found the bank with only $1,000 in cash
on hand. Some of the directors went to
Chicago that night, and by IL a. m. the
next day had telegraph d $780,. 600 to the
bank and saved it. The other directors
never knew until now how nearly their
bank was wrecked. Baldwin'S brother,
also in that bank, embeZZled $4,000.
Amml covered it for him, he says, with
the help of Harper and others. and then
got into Harper's hands. When the
latter founded the Fidelity he took
Baldwin along with him.
The Fidelity was run on wind and by
the One-man power Of Harper alone,
who knew all the details, attended to all
the business and kept all the secrets of
the business. saved such as he shared
with Miss Josie Holmes. the exchange
clerk. Harper was bound to keep the
stock of the bank up and at the pre-
MUM, and bought everybody's stock
wbc wanted to sell. Baldwin was sick
and absent for few weeks. and on his
return found Harper had assumed the
duties of cashier, and continued to do
so on the plea of relieving Baldwin of
hard work. Harper'S institutions all
seemed to have unlimited credit at the
bank, and Harper himself had balances
of 100000 or so ON hand nearly all the
time. The money seems now to have
come mostly from hypothecating the
banks stock and from the discOunting
of accommodation paper, yet so adroitly
was it all done that Baldwin did not suS-
pect the true state of affairs until the
crash came. He had often heard Ben
Hopkins, the assistant cashier. say that
Harper must be worth at least s.. O0O. 600.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
COLOREn MASONS.
They Are Charged With Conniving
at Murder

New ORLEANS, Oct. 10.-A special to
the Pieayune from Greenwood, Miss,
says: Prophet Segur, Mike Brown,
Robert Brown. Maj. Malcolm Hinton,
Robert Owen, Wash Johnson and Wash
Scott, the negro Masons charged with
the killing of Harry Taylor and wife,
after hearing before Justice Parks,
have been, with the exception of the
last named, committed TO Jail without
bond to await the action OF the grand
jury. and have been brought here for
safe keeping. There is clear evidence
against them. and they will no doubt be
convicted. During the trial it was dis
covered that resolution TO kill Mr..
kerney, white man who had a fight
with one OF their brothers. was passed
during one of their meetings. but the
time appointed for the deed had not yet
come. Two days were consumed in
taking testimony, and many other
negroes have been Implicated.
There is no doubt that a
colored man, a member of the Dry
Bayou lodge of negro MaSons. was killed
by Harry Taylor and that both Harry
Taylor and his wife had disappeared, a
body corresponding to that of Taylor's
being found i'll the river, with marks of
violence upon 1t. Inc body mad been
weighted down. The lodges in this
county were organized by negro named
Striuger, who claims to be working I'M
der the authority of the Grand Orient of
France. Their lodge was founded in
1882. Several other lodges have been
founded in this section. The colored
Masons are not recognized by the white
Masons and their order is not under the
authority of the old York order of Ma
sOnry. IL is hard to say whether they
have an obligation that teaches them to
avenge, Stay, etc, or whether they con-
Strue the obligations they take to suit
themselves. Tine white people of the
county are determined to break up their
lodges and to punish the guilty mem
berS of this death-dealing order. The
circuit court, when it meets, will decide
upon the matter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
"A Chickens Fast.

Westminster Valley Record.
During July ID and II Elias Croft. of
New Holland, Lancaster county, had his
wheat crop housed in the barn, and on
Wednesday, Aug. 81 the crop was
threshed. When the middle of the NOW
was reached hen was found nestled in
narrow space between the wheat and
some hay with which part of the NOW
was filled. The hen was still alive, but
on picking her up she was found to be
mere skeleton, less than pound in
the hen staggered about, and at first
would not eat anything, but as soon as
some water was placed before her she
drank freely, and soon afterward began
eating. She is now moving about again
as though nothing had been wrong.
Considering that the hens imprison-
ment in her close quarters was at least
seven full weeks and probably fifty days,
it must be regarded as a remarkable
case Of endurance, and shows that chick
ems have wonderful vitality.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
LATE ST. PAUL NEWS.

The Olympic had ane audience last night
a1d the Favorite Variety coupany Ehde a
success. The record this season kcIIas 10 he
one Of pleasing successes, aad tie manage
inent Is doing all in its power 10 continue
likewise. The people are all good but es-
lcrinl mention is due Malcolm aud I.onetta,
Ethel Baldwin and Davis and Williams.
Same bill all the week.
Timothy. Hays, who was brought from
Minneapolis,to ST Paul Al few days ago while
sick, died ut st. JosephS hospital Friday.
The remains were sent 10 La Sale, H., ac-
companied by his brother.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
A Baby Farm.

BosToN, Oct. 10.-John B. McAbee
was charged in the Cambridge police
court Saturday with burying bodies
without permit or death certificate.
An investigation brought to light the
existence of baby farm conducted by
Mrs. Spean in Arlington. She came
there last summer and since July the
place has been full. According to
young McAbee's statement there have
been eight deaths within two months.
About a week ago Mrs. Spean fed.
McAbee says that his brother received
Sc piece for burying the kids" as he
called them
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
Failure Of a Bank.

DENVER. Col, Oct. 10.-The banking
house of Morton +. Post Sc Co. sus-
pended to-day, owing to inability to re-
alize ON loans. They say they expect to
pay dollar for dollar when the loans are
settled up. They claim $9O3,570 assets
against $40, 300 liabilities. The failure
was expected and causes no excitement,
but a great many poor people who are
depositOrs will suffer. The figures
given by the bankers are thought to be
too favorable, A branch bank at West
Cliff, Col, is also closed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
A DELIGHTED Wife.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 10.-Dr. w. H.
Hunter, the Fourth street dentist
charged with abortion, was acquitted
this morning. AS soon as the decision
was announced the defendants wife
leaped to her feet, shouting for JOY and
waving her hands wildly over her head.
A moment afterwards, overcome by her
emotion, she tainted and was carried
from the court room.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
AND THEY WE'RE MARRIED.

SHE.
She lived away out in Arkansaw-
She had snaggle teeth and whopper jaw;
Her hair was as red as a prairie fire,
And her name it was Susan Mirandy Mariar
Her color was ecru and freckle-and-tan;
She wore No. 9's like little man;
Her temper was always stolen or strayed,
And the oracles vowed she would die an old
maid.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
A FAMILY "SENT UP"
A Father, Mother and Two
Sons Get Long and
Just Sentences
For Robbing and Afterward
Criminally Assaulting a
Young Woman.
Colored Masons in the South
Charged With Murder
Gus Deeds.
How the Fidelity Bank, at
How the Fidelity Bank, at
Cincinnati, Was Run
Mainly on Wind.

New YORK, Oct. 10.-The members
of the O'Connor family, father. mother
and two sons, who were convicted OF
having robbed and assaulted young
English woman named May f. HARDWOOD
in their rooms Oh East FOrty-seventh
street, were to-day sentenced by Judge
COwing TO state prison for sixteen years
each
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
After His Wife,s Lover.

ELIZABETH, N. j., Oct. Johannes
Leyland, mate on the Old Dominion
line, suspecting his wife's loyalty, Wis
tied his home on Saturday night ccom-
panied by two detectives. He burst in
the door, and finding that the man he
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
DIDN'T KNOW DUSTY BOB.
If He Had, Shot Sam Wouldn't Have
Been Played for Ore OF the Rank
est Of Suckers.
How He Made Mash on the Belle Of
the Ball at Blue Peaks to His
Great Sorrow.
The Outcome Relieved the Suspense Of
the Sensation-Loving Nuggetville
hssayer Editor.

HE prosecution of
mining camp jour
nalism differs, in
some slight degree,
from metropolitan
journalism. There
is not so much
hurry about it,
but it is at times
quite as exciting.
| have known it to
be even more so.
Once, while Occu-
pying all the editO-
rial chairs and re-
pOrterS' desks on a
weekly paper pub
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
AN AGE OF SUPERSTITION.
The American Public Pretty Well
Welded to a Belief in the
Value Of Signs.
A Girl Who Thought Her Grave Was
Walked 0n---Gamblers Who
M Have Queer Notions.
An Incident Of a Street Car Ride.
Old Bugaboos Which Have Dis
81 appeared From View.

N ROSSED in
t &C h other, two
young, handsome,
well dressed girls
were riding in an
open car on the
the Avenue line a
few days ago, says
the W ashingtOn
Star.
1t was in the
middle of the day,
and the only other
passengers at that
time were a foxy
eyed, beetle-brow-
d, DIN o S e d,
man. an exquisite
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
A Few Suggestions for Hunters

A Few Suggestions for Hunters.
New York Sun.
If you shoot at a bird and miss it,
don't blame the bird. 1t is not his
fault.
Never buy large game bag. Be
charitable. Other people have as much
right to hunt as yau.
Ii you shoot a farmers dog by mis-
take, don't wait to explain matters.
Farmers are powerfully strong as a
rule.
Never go hunting without plentiful
supply of snake-bite antidOte. Whisky
is the most popular remedy to date.
If after a lengthy search about
place you fail to find any game COM
plain to the owner. He may possibly
stock it for you.
If your gun misses fire don't look
down the barrel to see if the charge has
started. 1t is dangerous practice. If
you don't believe it, try it.
Do not carry your gun by the muZZle.
Unfortunately guns cannot discrimin-
ate. They don't know their masters
from ordinary mOrtalS.
Never use the tail of your hunting
dog for sight when he is pointing, as
he is liable to wag it at the critical
mement and spoil your shot.
s When you see bird don't fire too
hurriedly. Take good aim. Guns are
like domestics in some things. They
kick when discharged suddenly.
If some one else gets more game than
you don't diSpair. He is probably an
old hand at the business, and You will
be old, too, some day-if you live. $50
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11

But sometimes You can't most always tell
How the gods will dispose and it so befell
That in spite of Fate Marian Mirandy
Wooed. won and wed Gotham dandy
She fished with matrimonial adj,
A photograph for abait she had:
A picture posed with consummate skill,
Toned down, toned up retouched, until
Her own dear ma was heard to inquire
If that, indeed, were her Susan Marian.
Her freckes had all vanished;
She had raven tresses in lieu of red;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11

A WELCOME
d: /: [: RING!

To more thoroughly advertise house as promoters
of low prices reliable Dry Goods we naugurate this
Tuesday morning special five days sale, introducing
extra low prices in every department of our establish
ment. The goods quoted all of the highest grade
with the lowest range of prices ever shown in The
Northwest Although the quantities On all goods ad-
vertsed are large, the undoubted of this sal.
makes it an object to those who want first selections
to call as early in the week as possible Ladies whe
take advantage of the morning to do their trading can
get better attention than during the afternoon rush.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11
the peace. He saw the article in Car
son nanerI

the peace. He saw the article in a Car
son paper"
Ny visitor lifted his hat and departed.
For once / felt no joy or pride in be-
ing copied. What should l do? Flight
was as useless to me as to any heroine
in melOdrama with only the deepest
dungeon at the end of her "only avenue
of escape"
The only stage line ran only to Car
son,
SAM was jp Carson.
Plainly, I had only to choose between
suicide and Sans anatomical exploits
in the direction of my heart:
The columns of the ASSayer that
week were not noted for that light. and
breezy indifference to PUBLIC opinion
that previously distinguished them.
They were as cOldly conservative as
the Pacific railroads investigation. Sam
did not come for several weeks. One
evening-the three printers had gone
out for supper and was alone in the
Office-a very tall, slim, clerical-lOOking
party entered and asked if l was the
new editor.
YES" l replied briskly, "and it is
needless for me to ask if you are the
new minister we have been expecting"
mo" said the stranger, smiling
family, ''Fm Sam-ShOrt SAM"
thought my heart would save him
the trouble of cutting it out.
tried to reach for my pistol, but my
hand would not move. | believe Sam
saw my effort, but he only twirled his
thumbs nervOusly and said, almost
sheepishly:
"Do you know Dusty Bob?"
sI,prtainIy EUQrvhn6V who hos
knocked about Nevada mining camps as
much as have knows Dusty"
Everybody but me-" said Sam--sadly.
thought. and" he continued, 1--WE
knocked about bit, too. TO think that
| should be played for sucker by the
best known and SlickeSt female in the
state. And she wOn-played me and
Won"
A light began to dawn on my agitated
mind.
Sam went on after pause, during
which he produced letter from his
pocket: II reckon her advice is the
best, SO you can read this
l read neatly written note, as follows:
Dear Sam: I'm off. | take one thousand
and the diamond pin. There's enough left
for you to get back to Blue Peaks and have Il
stake to START with. Ia ia, Sammy. Your
own little wife. Dusty BOB.
P.S.-You had better not kill the new ed.
itOr. Make use of him to keep this end of
the story out of The papers (for those editors
learn everything), and square it with him
that way. Dusty.
''Is it go?" asked Sam as l looked
up from reading the letter.
Its CO." replied.
Sam left for distant camp that night,
and the NuggeMille Assayer never
mentioned that the beautiful Miss
Blocker was in fact Dusty Bob.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11

And he? he was young and spooney, and
straight
WIZ fell in love and declined to whit.
And so-the idea! How it makes me laugh:
"And so-they were markedly telegraph !.
u. c. Davis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11

oU pieces 19-lncn Fallle france
Dress Silks in all the new and
popular shades. A goods that
has been retailed in this mar
ket at 1925.
80 pieces 2o-inch Pure Silk Serge I'M
20 different shades. A heavy, slightly
goods and great wearer.
20 pieces Marie Silk Plush in col
0ring, 10 inches wide; an excel
lent quality Of goods.
| case French Dress Flannels i'm
neat, pretty plaids in upwards of
80 styles.
10 pjeues 48-nch 75-7MW Black Cash
mere; extra finish. Never sold under
one dollar
1 case 42-inch Foule Suiting in
20 different mixtures; regular
75-eent goods.
100 doz. Ladies Extra Fine Scarlet
Wool Underwear, pure C0chin neal
Dye, commonly sold at $1.25;
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24

The Scientific American has been max
ing some Investigations recently in regard
to the distance required t. stop a large
ocean steamer. Mr.. Nash, for many
years secretary Of the board of pilots,
calculates that a vessel running nineteen
knots an hour would cover two miles
after its engines were stopped and re-
versed. Two other trusted New York
pilots made the same calculation and
reached the same result. The captain of
the Aurania believed that he could stop
his vessel when going at full speed in a
mile, and the commander of the Alaska
believed it could be done in a mile and a
half. No one acquainted with the sub
ject placed the estimate under a mile.
From such facts it is easy to realize the
dangers of collision in fogs. 1t has been
wondered that collisions should be so fire.
quent. but it seems more a matter of
wonder that they are SC rare.-Public
Opinion,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24

That escape from Siberia is possible is
a fact, hut it is attended with great diff
culties and risks. That the unhappy
beings condemned to exile in the snowy
solitudes of northern Asia do now and
again attempt to flee from their sorrows
is certain, but it is seldom that success
rewards their efforts. In journeying along
the great Siberian post road in his sled
from Orenburg to 1rkutsk the traveller
will occasionally be accosted by desperate,
famished, f~ootsore wayfarers, who crave
from him a few kopecks. He hands them
the trifiing sum requested, and the poor
fellows disappear i'll the forest. These
wretched creatures are exiles ~endeavoring
to make their way back to European
Russia. During the day they keep a
little to one side of the great highway,
fearing detection, but under cover of
night they stealthily enter the villages
and find shelter in the outhouses of the
peasants homesteads. Bread is often
placed for them ON the benches which
stand before the doors of the villagers
huts. for the Siberian peasant has great
sympathy with the banished ones. If not
an exile himself, probably he is the son
or the grandson of one. Thus it is that
the fugitives can travel thousands of
miles without mourning much risk of
death from hunger by the way.
Siberians assert. indeed. that 33 per
cent. of Siberian exiles manag to escape,
and official figures have recently been
published to the effect that in 1877 of the
2S,S2S ~colonist exiles sent to the district
of Torask, 10, 796-that is, one-third of
the entire number-had escaped. As a
matter of fact, however, not ) per cent.
succeed in returning to Russia, even from
those districts nearest to the European
portion of the empire.-New York Mail
and Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
Manufacture of Hairpins.

For years the English and French con-
trolled the manufacture of hairpins, and
1T is only within the last twenty years that
the goods have been produced in this
country to any extent. The machinery
used is of a delicate and intricate charac-
ter, as the prices at which pins are sold
necessitate the most rapid and cheapest
process, which can only be procured by
automatic machines. The wire is made
expressly for the purpose and put up in
large coils, which are placed in a clamp,
which carries it to the machine while
Strengthening it; from there it runs in
another machine, which cuts, bends, and,
by a delicate and instantaneous process,
sharpens the points. Running at full
speed these machines will turn out 1870
hairpins every minute. To economize,
1t is necessary to keep them working night
and day. The difficult part is the enamel
ing, which is done by dipping in a prepa-
ration and baking in an oven. Here is
where the most constant and careful at
tention is required, as the pin must be
perfectly smooth and the enamel have a
perfect polish. The slightest particles of
dust cause imperfections and rough
ness, which is Objectionable. Brooklyn
Citizen.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
The Gypsy as IA Tinker.

Every gypsy is a born tinker, and all
gypsies are ''handy' at mending, and
splicing and fixing anything, anywhere,
any time. Joe, over there, is a fair sam
pie of the average tinker regularly CON
nected with a well to do band. He will
earn, make and save $1,000 by the sum-
mer's trip, and with it add a few more
priced acres to his splendid Pennsylvania
farm. l always share a tent with these
thinkers, and accompany them on their
trips among the farms. The farm folks
everywhere know them, and Hello, Joe
Tor Dick Oh Bob, you here agin!" is the
universal greeting. Then we are given
the old store of unreliable copper boilers,
broken griddles, handleless tea pots and
sieve like milk pans, which have been ac-
cumulating since the gypsies went away
last year. For the village tinsmith's
hammer is now seldom heard on all well
established gypsy routes. Because Joe
is a gypsy he always manages to get a
better price for his work than a village
smith; and because he is a bit of a cob
bier and saddler there are countless other
little jobs waiting for him and his kind.
Edgar l.. Wakeman's Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
Fear of the Supernatural.

Fear of the supernatural is one variety
of fear. 1t is difficult to assign any nor
NAL object for this fear, unless it were a
genuine ghost. But, in spite of PSYCHE
cal research societies, science has not yet
adopted ghosts; so we can only say that
certain ideas of supernatural agency,
associated with real circumstances, pro-
duce a peculiar kind of horror. This
horror is probably explicable as the result
of a combination of simpler horrors. To
bring the ghostly terror to its maximum,
many usual elements of the dreadful
must combine, such as loneliness, dark
ness, ineXplicable sounds. especially of a
dismal character, moving figures half dis
cerned Tor, if discerned, of dreadful
aspect. and a vertiginous battling of the
expectation. This last element, which is
Intellectual, is very important. 1t pro-
duces a strange emotional ''curdle' in
our blood to see a process, with which
we are familiar. deliberately taking an
unwonted course. Any ones heart
would stop beating if he perceived his
chair sliding unassisted across the floor.
The lower animals appear to be sensitive
to the mysteriously exceptional as well
as ourselves. My friend. Professor w.
X. Brooks. of the Johns Hopkins univer-
sity, told me of his large and noble dog
being frightened into a sort of epileptic
fit by a bone being drawn across the floor
by a thread which the dog did not see.
Darwin and Romanes have given similar
experiences. The idea of the supernatural
involves that the usual should be set at
naught. In the witch and hobgoblin
supernatural. other elements still of fear
are brought in-caverns. slime and ooze,
vermin, corpses and the like.-William
James in Popular Science Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
AdulteratiOn in Paris.

Out of 936 samples of wine analysed
at the Paris municipal laboratory in
March. only 365 were sound; 2O7 con-
tanned water, 1T plaster, 1913 were
sugared and 80 composed in part of raj
sins. Out of 400 samples of milk, 1893
were good and 90 adulterated with water.
Eleven samples of butter out of 10 were
good.-Paris Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
THE END.

And so we cast aside our cherished friendship,
And so l cease to call you even friend:
And so | hurr, from all sight and hearing
The memory of this friendship and its end.
III you have caused me pain, you are forgiven;
II you have grieved me it is over now;
If l have found you tickle and unstable,
You will forget, no grief need cloud your brow.
All, well, it is not strange we should grow weary
II is not strange we both should wish to part;
But, now It's over, | reveal my secret
'Tis this. | loved you, loved you from my heart.
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